Roadway 爆弾s 工場／植物d by 麻薬 cartel in Mexico kill 4 police officers, 2 非軍事のs
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A 麻薬 cartel 始める，決める off a 連係させた 一連の seven roadway 爆弾s in western Mexico that killed four police officers and two 非軍事のs, 公式の／役人s said Wednesday. The 知事 of Jalisco 明言する／公表する said the 爆発s were "a 罠（にかける）" 始める，決める by the cartel to kill 法律 施行 職員／兵員.
Luis M?ndez, the 長，指導者 検察官，検事 of Jalisco 明言する／公表する, said the 爆破s late Tuesday in the 郡区 of Tlajomulco were so powerful they left 噴火口，クレーターs in the road, destroyed at least four 乗り物s and 負傷させるd 14 other people.
It appeared to be the first time that a Mexican cartel killed 法律 施行 職員／兵員 with improvised 爆発性の 装置s, or IEDs, and was the 最新の example of the ますます open, 軍の-style challenge 提起する／ポーズをとるd by the country´s 麻薬 cartels.
M?ndez said the two dead 非軍事のs were in a 乗り物 that happened to be passing the 位置／汚点／見つけ出す when the IEDs 爆発させるd in Tlajomulco, 近づく the 明言する／公表する 資本／首都 of Guadalajara. He 示唆するd the 爆弾s may have been remotely 爆発させるd, 説 the 爆破 "happened at the moment they 手配中の，お尋ね者."
He said 12 of the 負傷させるd were also 非軍事のs, 含むing three children ages 9, 13 and 14. He said some of the 負傷させるd were in serious 条件. 専門家s had to 信管を取り除く an eighth IED that did not 爆発させる, and 警告するd the area was still dangerous, M?ndez said.
Enrique Alfaro, the 知事 of Jalisco 明言する／公表する, said an anonymou s 報知係 who gave a volunteer search group a tip about a 内密の burial 場所／位置 近づく the roadway 始める，決める "a 罠（にかける）" for the officers.
FILE - Mexican Army 兵士s 論証する a search for anti-職員／兵員 地雷s during a マスコミ 贈呈 近づく Naranjo de Chila, in the municipality of Aguililla, Michoacan 明言する／公表する, Mexico, Feb. 18, 2022. 当局 say that a 連係させた 一連の roadway 爆弾 爆破s on July 11, 2023 in Tlajomulco, Jalisco 明言する／公表する killed four police officers and two 非軍事のs, 同様に as 負傷させるd 14 others. (AP Photo/Armando Solis, とじ込み／提出する)
For years, police have been unable to 位置を示す the more than 110,000 行方不明の people in Mexico, but they …を伴って volunteer search groups that look for such hidden 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大なs. The volunteers, usually the mothers of 行方不明の people, often get 匿名の／不明の tips about where their 親族s may be buried.
Jalisco Gov. Enrique Alfaro said a total of eight "improvised 爆発性の 装置s" were 工場／植物d on the roadway.
"This is a 残虐な terror attack," Alfaro said at a news 会議／協議会 Wednesday, 非難するing the deaths on an 無名の 麻薬 cartel. He said he was 一時的に 一時停止するing police 護衛するs for volunteer searches for the safety of the 非軍事のs.
圧力をかけて脅す（悩ます） Flores, a leader of one of the search groups in Jalisco, said it did not appear that any search volunteers were in the blown up 軍用車隊.
"This is an 前例のない 行為／法令／行動する that shows what these 麻薬 cartels are 有能な of," Alfaro wrote earlier on his social マスコミ accounts. "This attack also 代表するs an open challenge to the Mexican 政府 on all levels."
Alfaro did not say who he 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd of setting the 爆弾, but the Jalisco 麻薬 cartel has 重要な experience in using improvised 爆発性の 装置s, 同様に as 爆弾-dropping drones. IEDs also 負傷させるd 10 兵士s in the 隣接地の 明言する／公表する of Michoacan in 2022 and killed a 非軍事の.
Earlier Tuesday, a 連邦の 公式の／役人 定評のある that another cartel had used a car 爆弾 to kill a 国家の Guard officer in the 隣接地の 明言する／公表する of Guanajuato.
And on Monday in the n eighboring 明言する／公表する of Guerrero, 抗議する人s 連合した with yet another 麻薬 ギャング（団） 戦う／戦いd 安全 軍隊s, （軍用に）徴発する／ハイジャックするd a police 装甲の トラックで運ぶ and used it to 押し通す 負かす／撃墜する the gates of the 明言する／公表する 立法機関 building.
The area around Guadalajara has seen 血まみれの 戦う／戦いs between 派閥s of the Jalisco cartel, which was 非難するd in the previous use of IEDs in Mexico.
In February 2022, in the Michoacan 郡区 of Aguililla, a 道端 地雷 損失d an army 乗り物 and 負傷させるd 10 兵士s.
A few days later, another IED killed a 農業者 when he drove over the 装置 in his 好転 トラックで運ぶ. The 農業者´s son was 負傷させるd in the 爆破, which was 明らかに 燃料d by a 装置 含む／封じ込めるing ammonium nitrate.
Special squads of Mexican army 軍隊／機動隊s equipped with metal detectors and 爆弾 控訴s were later （軍隊を）展開する，配備するd to the area. Dozens of such 装置s were 設立する along 田舎の roads and fields in the area around the 郡区 of Aguililla.
The IEDs 含むd 装置s 爆発させるd by 無線で通信する or telephone signal, by 圧力 - as when someone steps on them - or even by vials that break and 連合させる two 化学製品s.
The Jalisco cartel has been fighting the 地元の Viagras ギャング（団）, also known as 部隊d Cartels, for 支配（する）／統制する of the area for years. Those 戦う／戦いs have featured the use of ざん壕s, pillboxes, homemade 装甲の cars and drones 修正するd to 減少（する） small 爆弾s.
The cartels´ 爆弾-carrying drones have 原因（となる）d more terror in Michoacan than the land 地雷s. While 最初 天然のまま and dangerous to 負担 and operate - and still worrisomely 無差別の - drone 戦争 has 改善するd; it's not unusual to see metal barn or shed roofs opened like tin cans from the 衝撃 of drone 爆発s.
Tuesday's IED attack in Tlajomulco 代表するd a blow for volunteer search groups because they depend on 匿名の／不明の tips to find 集まり 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な 場所／位置s. Many times, 捜査員s 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う the tips come from former members of the same cartels that killed their 親族s and 捨てるd their 団体／死体s.
But the 捜査員s have long operated under an uneasy, 非，不，無-侵略 understanding with the cartels; the volunteer groups 強調する／ストレス they are not looking for 証拠 to 起訴する those 責任がある kidnapping and 殺人，大当り family members. They say they only want to find the remains, to end their 不確定 and give their 親族s a decent burial.
However, six volunteer search 行動主義者s have been killed in Mexico since 2021. While the 動機s in those 殺人，大当りs remain 不明瞭な, 行動主義者s say the cartels have tried to 脅迫してさせる 捜査員s, 特に if they 調査／捜査する 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大なs 場所／位置s that are still 存在 used.
